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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
TopicAbhijeet Banerjee

Topic: Abhijeet Banerjee

Modi govt should spend more to support people, says Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee

India’s total spending on health has remained stagnant at around 1.5% of GDP in the last 4 years. The Modi govt is projecting an increase to 1.8% this financial year & to 2.5% by 2025.

Video messages by Abhijit Banerjee nudged Covid symptom reporting in Bengal, report says

Working paper authored by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and 7 others says celebrity messaging managed to get more people to report Covid symptoms, practise hygiene.

Duflo & Banerjee say NRC-CAA ‘risky’, Naushad Forbes tells industry, speak truth to power

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

The data NCRB left out, and Fadnavis & Khattar play a game they’re bound to win

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Hegde’s dig at ‘NYAY proponent’, Kapil Sibal’s advice to Modi and Khattar on his hobby

The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Nobel for Abhijit Banerjee and co shows how Economics as a discipline is changing

The 2019 Economics Nobel prize winners are 3 "poverty fighters" who defy the notion that economists are merely upholders of the free market.

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Why district judges almost never make it to India’s Supreme Court

Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.